Mary Wakefield, PhD, RNa Improving the health status of the United States is predicated on reducing and eventually eliminating health disparities and achieving health equity. Meaningfully addressing health disparities is complex work and involves considering what are, at times, seemingly unrelated factors. Recognizing this challenge, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recen...

background and objectives: outsourcing healthcare and the associated services has proven as an effective strategy for enhancing hospital performance and improving quality of services. despite, the concept is relatively new in iran, calling for studies investigating different aspects of the issue and its potential benefits. thus, this study was conducted to explore the impact of outsourcing mana...

HEALTHiADMNISTRAION The provision of health care services to the people of India is a basic responsibility of state governments and to some extent of municipal corporations of the larger cities. The Union Government is responsible for this provision in Union administered territories. (a) Central Administration. The Union Government, through the Ministry of Health, generally has largely advisory...

The approach to cooperation between physicians and veterinarians and with any other health-related skills shall be addressed to the identification and attainment of the goals that require collaboration meant both as a joint action and a division of responsibility. Collaboration must be achieved both when Medical and Veterinary Services belong to the same Administration and when they belong to d...

Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Rural Health Panel receives continuing support from RUPRI, the result of a Congressional Special Grant, administered through the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. REDESIGNING MEDICARE: CONSIDERATIONS FOR RURAL BENEFICIARIES AND HEALT...

introduction: one of the basic problems of hospital management is lack of an effective fiscal system, which causes in loose cost control. meanwhile, accounting techniques and economic analyses may help the managers to decide better in planning programs and investing fields. then, it’s time to have a better estimate of health care services costs in our competitive situation for the hospitals, in...

background: avoidable mortality (am) is one of the most important health indicators (hi) and represents the quality of care in a hospital.objective: this study measured the efficacy of a training program for a hospital healthcare staff to reduce am.methods: this epidemiological study on community intervention analyzed time-series data on hi by semesters from 2008 to 2015. the pre-intervention p...

background there is limited evidence on the course of health service costs before and after psychiatric inpatient treatment, which might also be affected by source of cost data. thus, this study examines: i) differences in health care costs before and after psychiatric inpatient treatment, ii) whether these differences vary by source of cost-data (self-report vs. administrative), and iii) predi...

1Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Centre, School of Rehabilitation, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR Iran 2Department of Health Services Administration, School of Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR Iran 3Department of Audiology, School of Rehabilitation, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 4Hearing and Speech Research Ce...

We know that cultural values and traditions offer special strengths that should help guide health care messages and treatments. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and its Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) believe that mental health services often are more effective when they are provided within the most relevant and meaningful cultural, gender-sensitiv...